# προάγω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From προ- (pro-, “before”) +‎ ἄγω (ágō, “to go, lead”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pro.á.ɡɔː/ → /proˈa.ɣo/ → /proˈa.ɣo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pro.á.ɡɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /proˈa.ɡo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /proˈa.ɣo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /proˈa.ɣo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /proˈa.ɣo/

### Verb

προᾰ́γω • (proắgō)
* to lead forward, on, onward
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.148
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.132
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.23
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On his Return 9
** to bring forward
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 960A
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 262C
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epistles 341D
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.552D
*** ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 3.8
*** 200 CE – 400 CE, Heliodorus of Emesa, Aethiopica 7.23
** to lead on, induce, persuade
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.90
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.59
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 206
*** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 22A
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.5.2
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Panegyricus 174
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Peace 121
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1354A.25
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1415A.37
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.1
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 141
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Leptines 36
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 1
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.121
*** 396 BCE – 323 BCE, Lycurgus of Athens, Collected Works 33
*** 346 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Peace 14
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hipparchicus 5.15
*** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Collected Works 3.117
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1270B.2
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.22
*** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Against Lochites 8
*** 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 79
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 194A.31
*** 346 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Peace 23
** to carry on or forward
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.18
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.75
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1274A.10
*** 519 BCE – 422 BCE, Cratinus, Collected Works 300
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 163
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Prooemia 38
*** 400 BCE – 250 BCE, Aristoxenus, Historical Fragments 81
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 985B.24
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Sophistical Refutations 183B.29
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1449A.13
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1098A.22
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1282B.35
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.50
*** 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 266
*** (of persons) to promote, prefer
**** 400 BCE – 200 BCE, Isyllus, Poetic Inscription 3
**** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.13.6
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Themistocles 7
**** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Galba 20
**** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Alexander the False Prophet 55
*** to prefer
**** 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 4.8.44
** (in perfect passive with a middle sense)
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Conon 23
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1180A.8
* (seemingly intransitive, properly of an officer) to lead on, advance, push forward
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 227C
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 90B
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.5.6
** 75 CE, Josephus, The Jewish War 6.1.6
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 2.65.1
** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 3.35.1
** (figuratively) to precede
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 719A
*** 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 19.6.2
** to go on, advance
*** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 181
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Physics 184A.19
*** 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Clearchus of Soli, Collected Works 6
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.92
*** New Testament, Second Epistle of John 9
*** 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 18.8.1
*** 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, Index Stoicorum 32
** to excel
*** 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 1.71
*** 37 CE – 100 CE, Josephus, Against Apion 2.15

#### Descendants

* → Greek: προάγω (proágo), προηγμένος (proïgménos) (learned)

### References

* “προάγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “προάγω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* προάγω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G4254 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek προάγω (proágō) with semantic loan from French promouvoir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾoˈa.ɣo/
* Hyphenation: προ‧ά‧γω

### Verb

προάγω • (proágo) (imperfect προήγα, past προήγαγα) (transitive)
* to promote, to advance, to further (to advocate or urge on behalf of, or otherwise create positive conditions for)
* to promote (to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank)

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Related terms

* προαγωγή f (proagogí)
* προαγωγικός (proagogikós)
* προαγωγός m or f (proagogós)

### References

* ↑ προάγω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language